Senior Environmental Health & Safety; EHS) Specialist

Position: Senior Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Specialist
At Serve Robotics, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses. The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago while doing commercial deliveries.

We’re looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

Who We Are We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.

JOB OVERVIEWServe Robotics is hiring a Senior EHS Specialist to own and advance our environmental health and safety programs across all domestic and international locations. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring deep expertise across workplace safety, regulatory compliance, machinery and equipment safety, and EHS education, with direct responsibility for ensuring our teams integrate safety into their daily work.

This role partners closely with Operations, Facilities, Hardware, and site leadership to build a proactive safety culture, maintain rigorous compliance across California and federal regulatory frameworks, and extend our EHS standards to our growing international footprint. The ideal candidate brings 5–7 years of hands-on EHS experience in a technical operations environment, a genuine passion for safety education, and the credibility to influence how safety is practiced on the floor every day.

JOB DUTIESOwn the development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of EHS policies, procedures, and programs across all Serve facilities and operational sites

Lead routine and targeted facility inspections, safety audits, and risk assessments, identifying hazards, evaluating controls, and driving corrective actions to closure

Build and maintain a safety assurance function that provides consistent, structured oversight across all sites, ensuring programs are not just written but actively practiced

Partner with Operations to embed safety standards into daily workflows, shift routines, and standard operating procedures

Develop site-specific safety initiatives and continuous improvement projects that measurably reduce risk over time Track and report on safety performance metrics, including audit findings, corrective action status, incident rates, and near miss trends, to site leadership and senior management

Own safety standards for all machinery, equipment, and workbench operations across Serve's depot and lab environments

Conduct machinery hazard assessments and ensure appropriate guarding, lockout/tagout (LOTO), and safe operating procedures are in place and followed

Establish and enforce soldering safety standards, including ventilation requirements, PPE specifications, and safe handling of flux, solder, and related materials

Define PPE requirements by task, environment, and hazard type, ensuring the right protective equipment is available, properly maintained, and consistently used Evaluate new equipment and tools before deployment, conducting safety reviews and ensuring safe work procedures are established before operational use begins

Partner with Hardware and Operations teams to integrate safety standards into equipment design, depot layout, and workstation configuration

Ensure…